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"This book is deliciously subversive. Garrett demonstrates that the major writers in Yiddish, a language without its own territory, wrote as if their Jewish subjects lived and traveled freely at the center of the world; not on its margins, not in a ghetto, not in a valorized state of exile." - David G. Roskies, Jewish Theological Seminary; "Garrett's work goes a long way towards conceptualizing and analyzing a phenomenon omnipresent in Yiddish short stories, novels, poetry, and drama, combining theoretical considerations of the journey in general and specific, nuaneed readings of Jewish journeys in particular." - Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University; "This kind of scholarship is vital for the further progress in Yiddish studies and its integration into the mainstream humanities." - Misha Krutikov, Oxford Institute for Yiddish StudiesRead more...